Mollie > Mollie's Quotes

“They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...”
― Laurie R. King

“When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

“A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.”
― Orson Scott Card, Empire

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”
― Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder

“I realize I'm trying to work out the boundaries. How to love her without interfering. How to step back and let her have her private world and yet still be an intimate part of it. When she talks about her feelings, I have to consciously tell myself she wants me to receive them, not fix them.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

“Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

“...what woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

“They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

“It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

“I loved this time of night, how everything softened and lost the hard edges of day, and how, if the wind moved just right, the live oaks would murmur tender green words across the shadowy lawn. Sitting with a book in the warm circle of light from the table lamp had become my favorite way to end the day.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“I stared at the room full of caskets on display-their lids gaping open like hungry mouths, waiting to swallow up the newly departed. I decided I'd much rather exit this world in a crackle of flames and a swirl of smoke through my ribs than be cooped up for all eternity in a dark box surrounded by puffy white satin.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“One day you'll do something, see something or get an idea that seems to pop up from nowhere. And you'll feel a kind of stirring- like a warm flicker inside your chest. When that happens, whatever you do, don't ignore it. Open your mind and explore the idea. Fan your flame.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“I had watched them trade best friends, start wars, cry, trade back, make treaties, squeal and grab each other's arms in this fake-excited way, et cetera...”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

“Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“...a gallon of condescension, upon everybody...”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“...[their] children were not growing up or being brought up, but were tumbling up.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction...”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“His features, which would later settle into pleasant collaboration, was growing at different rates, giving him a curious face that seemed designed by committee.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“Without dignity, identity is erased.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“Cruelty has never made me smile.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas